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Organizations and Web Resources

• Center for Excellence on Transgender Health, University of California, San Francisco. Comprehensive resource for providers, community members, and agencies, including provider-targeted Primary Care Protocols Project and HIV Services Models and Technical Assistance at Transitions Project.
• Critical Health Needs for MTF Transgenders of Color - Center for AIDS Prevention Studies [PDF Document]
• FTM Compass - New England FTM support group, website includes medical resources
• Hudson's FTM Resource Guide
• Love Your Body! - MTF and FTM Trans Health Fact Sheets [PDF Document]
• Survivor Project - Non-profit organization for intersex and trans survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
• Transgender Care Project from the Transgender Health Program in Vancouver, Canada, see Transgender Health Program Library for a variety of specific clinical resources.
• Trans-health.com - a volunteer-run website providing information on health and fitness for trans people.
• Transgender Health Coordinators
• TS Roadmap - Resources focused on MTF transition concerns
• Transsexual Women's Resources by Anne Lawrence

Protocols and Guidelines

• Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York City - Many community clinics use a combination of Tom Waddell Health Center and Callen-Lorde CHC Protocols. The Callen Lorde Protocols are only available by direct request (use link for request form). Providers like them because they are visit-by-visit specific and have a strong informed consent component. [PDF Document]
• Endocrine Therapy for Adults, Suggested Guidelines written by two physicians, a pharmacist and health educator, provides information on effects, regimens and delivery methods, lab work and other issues for prescribers, January, 2006. [link to PDF document]
• Primary Care Protocols Project of the Center for Excellenc on Transgender Health, University of California, San Francisco. Protocols Project, launched in April 2011.
• Transgender Primary Medical Care: Suggested Guidelines for Clinicians by Jamie L. Feldman MD, PhD and Joshua Goldberg, Transgender Health Care Project, January 2006. [link to PDF document]
• Transgender HIV/AIDS Services Best Practices Guidelines developed through the San Francisco Department of Public Health, HIV Health Services with community and provider collaboration, 2006.
• Shifting the Paradigm of Intersex Treatment - Key points of comparison between the concealment-centered model and the patient-centered model prepared by Dr. Alice Dreger for the Intersex Society of North America [includes link to PDF Document]
• World Professional Association on Transgender Health (WPATH) , Standards of Care, Version 7. Released September, 2011.
• Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders, Sixth Version. World Professional Association on Transgender Health (Formerly known as the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association) (February 20, 2001). [PDF Document]
• Tom Waddell Health Center Transgender Clinic, Protocols for Hormonal Reassignment of Gender, 2001

Articles

• Journal of Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, September/October 2009, Vol. 20, Number 5.
  Special Issue on Transgender Issues and HIV, Issue #1
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• Journal of Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, May, 2010, Vol. 21, Number 3.
  Special Issue on Transgender Issues and HIV, Issue #2 (There were so many articles submitted, they had to run a second dedicated issue. These two volumes added some 10 articles to the literature.)
• Feldman, J. and Bockting, W. (2003) Transgender Health, Minnesota Medicine, Volume 86, July 2003.
  
  
• Gooren, Louri, J.G. (2010) "Care of Transexual Persons" New England Journal of Medicine, 2011; 364; 1251-1257
  
  
• Gooren, Louis J. G. (1999) Hormonal Sex Reassignment, International Journal of Transgenderism, 3(3).

• Gorton, N.; Buth, J, Spade, D.(2005) Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men: A Guide for Health Care Providers.
• Karasic, D., Exploring your Patient's Gender Identity: Presentation at the Transgender Care Conference, UCSF, May 5, 2000. [ Transcript of above presentation: Dan Karasic, MD, and Lori Kohler, MD]
• Keatley, J. and Clements-Nolle, K. Factsheet: What are the Prevention Needs of Male-to-Female Transgender Persons? University of California, San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, (2001) (Spanish/Español)
  
  
• Lurie, S. (April/May/June 2006). Overview of Transgender Issues for College Health Centers, College Health in Action, Vol. 45(4), p. 1 and 10.
  
  
• Maguen, S, Shipherd, J, Harris, H, Providing Culturally Sensitive Care for Transgender Patients, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice 12: 479-490, 2005.
  
  
• Moore, E; Wisniewski, A; Dobs, A. (2003). Endocrine Treatment of Transsexual People: A Review of Treatment Regimens, Outcomes and Adverse Effects. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 88 (8). [PDF Document]
  
• National Coalition for LBGT Health (2004). An Overview of US Trans Health Priorities [PDF Document]
• Oriel, K. A. (2000). Medical care of transsexual patients. Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association 4(4): 185-193.
• Post, P, (2002), Crossing to Safety: Transgender Health and Homelessness, Healing Hands: A publication of the Health Care for the Homeless Clinician's Network, 6 (4), June 2002. [PDF Document]
• Smith, D and Walter, J, (2005), Improving Services to Transgender Students, Improving Services to All Students, Student Health Spectrum, Special issue on Cultural Competency: A Publication of the Chickering Group, January 2005. See pp. 29-34.
• Spack, N. (2005) Transgenderism. Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics, in collaboration with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Fall 2005, Vol. 12, Issue 3.